A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON MEDALLION' BOWL, YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD | 清雍正 青花團夔龍紋饅頭心盌 《大清雍正年製》款

A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON MEDALLION' BOWL

YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD

清雍正 青花團夔龍紋饅頭心盌 《大清雍正年製》款 

with gently rounded sides rising from a concave base, painted around the exterior in rich tones of cobalt blue with four circular roundels each depicting a pair of interlaced archaistic kui dragons, repeated in the centre of the interior and surrounded by a border of stylised pomegranates, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle in underglaze blue

Diameter 11.9 cm, 4¾ in.